Howells william dean howells w d (27 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Ex library copy.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. 8vo. Ex-library. Extravagant bright blue cloth binding with decoration in gilt, titles in gilt, and raised decorative band to front board. Two-color title page. 369 pp. William Dean Howells (/'ha??lz/; March 1, 1837 May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Ex-library with spine label and many marks and black-outs from library. Rough-cut pages. Hinges sound. Good. Size: 8vo. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. [4], 54, [4] pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates. Publisher's binding sturdy, a little darkened at edges; contents very good, all illustrations present, two loose and laid in. 130 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 61 pages : illustrations. Publisher's binding sturdy, a little darkened at edges; contents very good, illustrations securely bound. 130 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 68 pages : illustrations. Publisher's binding sturdy, a little darkened at edges; front inner hinge broken, contents very good, all illustrations present and securely bound140 grams. 130 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8vo., ix(1)288pp. plus two pages of ads. Sharp second printing of the First Trade Edition, bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and in gilt on front board with a gilt-edged red first initial. Top edge gilt. Dozens of illustrations throughout including tissue-guarded frontis. Square, tight and clean throughout with some fairly mild wear to spine ends, edges and tips. A couple of spots of soiling to cloth. No foxing. A solid collectable copy at a great price. ( BAL #9736).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo., 398pp. Solid Second Edition, originally published in 1867. Square, tight and clean throughout. Fairly minor edge-wear and light age-toning to edges. A nice collectbale copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 185 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt And Elaborately Stamped In Blind, Top Edge Gilt. First Printing. Small Frays At Ends Of Spine, Foxing To Endpapers. Plates (illustrator).

Embossed Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Original Century Binding Of Green Cloth, Elaborately Embossed And Printed In Gilt. Attractive Decorated Endpapers. Hinges And Endpapers Entirely Intact, Gilt Bright, But Some Edge Wear With Fraying To Lower Tips And Some Tiny Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spine. No Names Or Marks Or Stains. Numerous Black and White Illustrations and Photographs (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., (7)241pp. Sharp First Trade Edition, bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and in gilt on front board with a gilt-edged red first initials. Top edge gilt. A couple of dozen illustrations including tissue-guarded frontis. Square, tight and clean throughout with some fairly mild wear to spine ends, edges and tips. Spine a bit dulled. Light soiling but no foxing. Frontis tissue guard partially torn. A solid collectable copy at a great price. ( BAL #9762).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., (7)303pp. Sharp First Trade Edition, bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and in gilt on front board with a gilt-edged red first initial. Top edge gilt. Dozens of illustrations including tissue-guarded frontis. Square, tight and clean throughout with some fairly mild wear to spine ends, edges and tips. Spine a bit dulled. No foxing. A solid collectable copy at a great price. ( BAL #9791).…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. First Thus Edition. Octavo, xii, 232 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine dark green with gilt lettering. Boards show mild wear with light, sparse scuffs and slight rubbing wear to the head/tail edges. Text block has moderate age toning to the head/tail edges. Head edge gilt. Faint staining toward head edges to several pages and light offsetting to front end papers. Small "H" stamped to rear pastedown. First Thus Edition. 1371262. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Reprint. A nice English language German edition of this travelogue by the "Dean of American Letters". weight: 0.7 lb. Near fine, tight and unmarked. 8vo., 16x11.5x2.1 cm. 358 pp. Contemporary quarter black leather over marbled boards, gilt ruled bands and spine title, speckled red edges.

Original wraps. Includes a number of photos of Howells as well as a poem by him. Bottom of spine frayed o/w Near Fine. Photos (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Illus. by Howard Pyle, 8.5 x 6", gilt-dec brown cloth, unpaginated, covers a little darkened (especially spine), extremities bumped, endpapers unevenly toned, but still a nice, unopened (uncut) decorative cloth binding. FIRST EDITION. Poetry.

Hardcover. Octavo, 281 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's red cloth bearing black and gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have slight plus wear including slight rubbing to the edges. Text block has moderate wear including slight age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge gilt. Deckled fore edge. Partial cracking to the hinges. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column Y. 1408402. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8" bound in buckram printed with a four-color panorama of Boston's Beacon Street painted by Mimi Korach; 384 pages. Designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #39 of 1500 illustrated with 15 full-color full-page plates and 24 smaller color illustrations by Mimi Korach and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Bookplate on the front pastedown; spine slightly darkened. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Mimi Korach (illustrator).…

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Good. First Edition. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. First edition. 8vo. Turquoise cloth boards with decorative gold and red lettering, top edge gilt. 241 pp. Turn-of-the-century London travelogue, illustrated with frontispiece and various photogravures/illustrations of famous sights in London such as Houses of Parliament, Fleet Street, St. Dunstan's Church, Sacred Close, Hyde Park, Rotten Row, The Strand, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Clock Tower, etc. Book shaken, light wear to extremities, fraying top of spine. Antique ex-library purchased directly from the historical collection of one of the USA's oldest libraries and bearing its hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. Good condition.…

Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8" bound in buckram printed with a four-color panorama of Boston's Beacon Street painted by Mimi Korach; 384 pages. Designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #751 of 1500 illustrated with 15 full-color full-page plates and 24 smaller color illustrations by Mimi Korach and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Spine very slightly darkened. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Mimi Korach (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Illustrated Edition. Copy #246 of 250 numbered copies on large paper bound in gilt-lettered and decorated vellum over boards with the uncommon original rust-colored cloth dustwrapper with gilt lettering on the spine. With close to 100 illustrations by Clifford Carleton, ranging from small vignettes to full-page, all tipped-in on India Paper. Slight foxing to the spine and endpapers, otherwise largely unopened and Fine in the uncommon cloth dustwrapper, the spine of which is sunned with a few small chips but not affecting any of the lettering. Clifford Carleton (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good/Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 234pp. Sharp First Edition in the First State with the title page integral to the gathering and not a Cancel, and the copyright statement being 31/8" wide. Bound in green cloth with beveled edges. Spine titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Square, tight and clean throughout with some fairly minor page edge toning. Light wear to spine ends and tips. Contemporary ownership signature on front paste-down. A couple of pages roughly opened. A very pretty collectable copy of this early Howells travel title and quite uncommon in the First State. (BAL #9555). …

Hardcover. First Edition. Original red cloth. Illustrated with ten plates by A. I. Keller. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "W. D. Howells/Chicago, Oct. 25, 1899." Two early bookplates on front pastedown with one mostly scraped away revealing the other beneath; newspaper clipping laid down on rear endpaper with resulting browning to facing rear pastedown. Small spot of wear to cloth at base of spine. Near Fine. A. I. Keller (illustrator).…

Vellum. Zustand: Fine. Later edition of Howells's guide to Florence and Pisa enriched with literary portraits of their most illustrious citizens. Crown 8vo (150 x 109mm): 264pp, with 27 tipped-in full page albumen prints, many by the Florence firm Fratelli Alinari. Full decorated vellum over beveled boards, spine and covers richly gilt, brown leather lettering piece gilt, all edges stained red, decorative end papers, red silk ribbon page marker. Book plate of Jessie Heys and ticket of Florence bookseller Libreria R. Paggie (via Tornabuoni, 15) to front paste down. A superb copy, occasional light spotting to pages, but very securely bound and generally clean throughout. See Stevenson, "With William Dean Howells to Florence," The Critical Flame (accessible online). BAL 9620 (for first edition). First published in Boston, in 1886 (but copyrighted 1885). Visitors to Florence, a requisite stop on Italian sojourns, often purchased a compact memento sold by local booksellers, who had sumptuously bound various American and English literary works associated with the city (we also have on offer a similarly bound grangerised edition of Hawthorne's Marble Faun) in attractive souvenir bindings with albumen photographs of architectural attractions inserted. "Few companions to Florence are more engaging than William Dean Howells, . . . who first went to Italy in 1861 as an American diplomat stationed in Venice. . . . Howells became fluent in Italian and fell in love with the fractured country that recently had unified. . . . {He] returned to Tuscany in 1883, to recharge his batteries after many years at the Atlantic [Monthly, which he edited] and as the high judge of American letters. . . . What sets Howells apart from the majority of his American contemporariesexcept for Mark Twain and his Innocents Abroadis that he uses his travel books as rough drafts for his novels, and spends as much time examining character (as would Tolstoy, another of his favorites) as he does the cathedrals. In Tuscan Cities, Howells includes wonderfully evocative sketches of Dante, Cosimo the Elder, Lorenzo the Magnificent, and Savonarola, who come alive on his walks across Florence, known then to only a handful of travelers. . . . The theme that elevates Tuscan Cities from a simple guide book to something more serious is the compassion that Howells shows for the death of the Florentine republic, a political experiment that he finds as uplifting as Jefferson's America." (Stevenson) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).…

Hardcover. First Edition. Original red cloth. BAL 9642. Illustrated with eight plates. A fine presentation copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to "Joanna/from her brother,/W.D. Howells." We are not sure who the recipient is as Howells, one of eight children, did not have a sister named Joanna. He did have a brother named John, but he died in 1864. Slight hinge crack. Spine sunned and a little soiled. Very Good. …